I was very honored to be a featured soloist at the Ojai Music Festival this month, among fantastic company. My heartfelt thanks to this year’s artistic director, the great John Adams, and to festival director Ara Guzelimian, for inviting me. It was my first time performing at Ojai. I played Carlos Simon’s violin piece “Between Worlds” on the opening concert. Later in the week, and also at the Libbey Bowl, I played Samuel Carl Adams’ Chamber Concerto with John Adams conducting a marvelous band, and the Preludio from the Bach E major Partita (leading to the Esa-Pekka Salonen piece FOG, which was inspired by the Bach Preludio and by Frank O. Gehry).

I also gave a recital at the Zalk Theater, playing Anthony Cheung’s “Character Studies”, Dai Fujikura’s “prism spectra” (on viola), the first four movements of the Bach D minor Partita, and Kaija Saariaho’s “Frises”. The Saariaho and Fujikura both involve live electronics (my thanks to Dan Gower for our work together).

Thank you so much to all the wonderful artists, the hard-working staff, and the terrific audience. I’m excited to return to Ojai with AMOC next June as 2022 collective artistic director.

Reviews:
Los Angeles Times
Sequenza 21
Santa Barbara Independent here and here
San Francisco Classical Voice
New York Times